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London’s 45,000 Uber drivers can breathe a sigh of relief after a judge in London granted the ride-hailing company a 15-month probationary license to keep operating in the city. Dara Khosrowshahi, the company’s chief executive officer, might also have cause to celebrate.The Tuesday ruling was a legal and public-relations victory for the newish CEO who took charge of the company last year as it was already reeling from multiple scandals and headlines of the unflattering kind. Within weeks, he was confronted with yet more bad news when London’s transit regulator said it wouldn’t renew the startup’s operating license in the city. His flight to London soon after was both a diplomatic mission and the beginning of a test to prove he was the right person to salvage the scandal-drenched business.“Such a young business has suffered a number of growing pains which have not been helped by what seemed to be a rather gung-ho attitude of those running the business … [Read more...] about Uber’s CEO Launched a Charm Offensive to Win Over London

News / UK and world by Press Association June 19, 2018, 11:54 am FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppEmail Sign up to our Daily newsletter IBM has pitted a computer against two human debaters in the first public demonstration of artificial intelligence technology it has been working on for more than five years. The company unveiled its Project Debater in San Francisco, asking it to make a case for government-subsidised space research — a topic it had not studied in advance but championed fiercely with just a few awkward gaps in reasoning. “Subsidising space exploration is like investing in really good tyres,” argued the computer system, its female voice embodied in a 5ft-tall machine shaped like a monolith with TV screens on its sides. Such research would enrich the human mind, inspire young people and be a “very sound investment”, it said, making it more important even than good roads, schools or health care. The computer delivered its … [Read more...] about IBM pits computer against human debaters

The Lifters is “about a kid with an embarrassing name”: Granite Flowerpetal. “He was stuck with a last name that didn’t sound very intimidating. So his father gave him a counterbalancing first name,” says the best-selling author Dave Eggers of his latest creation. 12-year-old Granite moves from a life of relative affluence with his family near the coast to the fictional town of Carousel, a town thousands of miles from the sea so his father can find work. On the one hand, the boy is able to start over and shorten his name to Gran (though later realises Grant would have made much more sense). On the other, he has to create a new identity in a new place. He tries to insinuate himself into the life of a hard-to-impress girl with an unusual name of her own – Catalina Catalan – and the pair discover an underground warren of child-size tunnels after opening a doorway in a hillside. The only ones who know of the wonders and terrors below, they … [Read more...] about Dave Eggers interview: ‘Young readers are the purest. They’re so honest.’

Facebook Inc. may have to pay a real price for claims it invaded users’ privacy: billions of dollars.A federal judge ruled Monday that millions of the social network’s users can proceed as a group with claims that its photo-scanning technology violated an Illinois law by gathering and storing biometric data without their consent. Damages could be steep -- a fact that wasn’t lost on the judge, who was unsympathetic to Facebook’s arguments for limiting its legal exposure.The case dates back to 2015, long before Facebook became mired in controversy over revelations that millions of its users’ private information fell into the hands of British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. It’s rare for consumers to win class-action status in privacy cases. In Facebook’s history, most such cases don’t get that far.Facebook has for years encouraged users to tag people in photographs they upload in their personal posts and the social network stores the … [Read more...] about Facebook Photo-Scanning Suit Is a Multibillion-Dollar Threat

To report corrections & clarifications, contact: Please indicate whether you're responding to content online or in the newspaper. The following corrections & clarifications have been published on stories produced by USA TODAY's newsroom: April 2018 News: A previous version of this story misstated Elliot Rodger's weapons. He used both a knife and a gun. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/31/masculinity-traditional-toxic-trump-mens-rights/99830694/​ Video: A previous version of this video misstated the number of Americans living with unhealthful levels of pollution. https://www.usatoday.com/media/cinematic/video/33952141/8-of-americas-10-most-ozone-polluted-cities-are-in-this-state/​ Opinion: Because of an editing error, a headline in an earlier version of this column incorrectly described Amy Wax's job status. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/04/20/black-students-law-school-amy-wax-column/510510002/ … [Read more...] about Corrections & Clarifications